Hi, I'm asking to see if anybody knows of a separating character code. This is because of the task of saving strings. If you use vb's input output file methods you have a problem with these things >>> " <<< You can't use tab because that's a usefull thing to use inside strings and you can't use split and join with commas because you can enter a comma into a textbox. Basically i'm looking for a character code which means absolutely nothing except "separator". In my program in each line i'm saving a description(which is a string) and then some numbers behind that. At the moment i'm using split and join with "*`*" but that isn't a solution because anybody could enter that into a textbox. Hopefully someone knows of such a thing.